Go to the Globe and Mail homepageBy Paul Echlin. This year, I led an interventional initiative with the Hockey Concussion Education Project (HCEP) that would involve nine Canadian universities and 425 male and female student athletes. The study would prospectively evaluate the effects that physical laws (fewer players on the ice, five against five versus six on six) have upon concussion incidence. One half of all league games would be played with five-on-five players and the other half would be played traditionally with six-on-six players. Read more...